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Major Jackson
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
OccupationPoet
EducationTemple University; University of Oregon
GenrePoetry
Literary movementDark Room Collective
Website
majorjackson.com

Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of five collections of poetry: The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010), Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize[1] and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.[2] His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America's Countee Cullen: Collected Poems.

Life

He earned degrees from Temple University and the University of Oregon.[1] Major Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. From 2002 until 2020, he taught at the University of Vermont as the Richard A. Dennis Professor of English and University Distinguished Professor. He is a former graduate faculty member of the New York University Creative Writing Program and the Bennington Writing Seminars.[3][4][5] He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.[2]

His poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, Orion Magazine, The Yale Review, among other fine publications. His poetry has received critical attention in The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, World Literature Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.[6][7] His work has been included in many anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner, 2004), The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2004) Schwerkraft,[8] From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009),[9][10] and The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010).[11]

Honors and awards

A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, his awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award,[12] a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship[13] in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He also served as poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts Lowell,[2] and Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.

Poetry collections

  • The Absurd Man: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2020. ISBN 978-1-324-00455-4.
  • Roll Deep: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2015. ISBN 978-0-393-24689-6.
  • Holding Company: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07080-4.
  • Hoops: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-33037-3.
  • Leaving Saturn: poems. University of Georgia Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8203-2342-8.

References

  1. ^ a b Cave Canem Poetry Prize Winners Archived 2012-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c Author's Website. Major Jackson Biography
  3. ^ "Major Jackson". Blueflowerarts.com. 2006-04-17. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  4. ^ "Boston Review — Major Jackson: Myth". Bostonreview.net. Archived from the original on 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  5. ^ "major jackson | identity theory interview". Identitytheory.com. 2009-09-17. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  6. ^ Poets & Writers Directory Listing > Major Jackson
  7. ^ Blue Flower Arts > "Major Jackson Biography"
  8. ^ Ron Winkler. "Ron Winkler: SCHWERKRAFT". Ronwinkler.de. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  9. ^ Camille T. Dungy; Matt O'Donnell; Jeffrey Thomson, eds. (2009). From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Persea Books. ISBN 978-0-89255-348-8.
  10. ^ From the Fishouse Major Jackson Bio Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, ed. (2010). The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation. W. W. Norton & Company Limited. ISBN 978-0-393-07901-2.
  12. ^ "Major Jackson".
  13. ^ Witter Bynner Foundation Fellowship Recipients Archived 2007-06-28 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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